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by johansch 9y ago
Well that was weird. The grandparent asked why LEGO was so expensive. People reply with familiar Lego Group PR sound bytes that don't explain the markup. I reply with fresh economic facts that actually explain the costs and I am implic
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by johansch 9y ago
I agree, but I also think Airbnb should have a very visible promipt, in your face that they really don't guarantee that you will get what you paid for. To my knowledge they don't do this at the moment. (Referring to the TOC is jus
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by johansch 9y ago
Well, there's also that 32.8% LEGO Group operating margin...
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by johansch 9y ago
From the Times article that has more details: "British security chiefs have been put on alert that the US is planning to impose its laptop ban on incoming flights from some parts of Europe — a move that could be implemented within week
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by johansch 9y ago
I lol'ed.
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by johansch 9y ago
It does fit the pattern. When in lack of product innovation, milk the existing reveneue stream harder.
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by johansch 9y ago
I guess the argument is that if they should get the profit margin, they should also own the losses. I think I agree. (Doesn't change a thing about this guy's criminal responsibility, of course.)
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by johansch 9y ago
Company site: https://kittyhawk.aero/
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Russia hacked Danish defense for two years, minister tells newspaper(reuters.com)
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by johansch 10y ago
Are you saying the german anti-nuclear people are largely distinct from the german 'environmentalists'?
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by johansch 10y ago
I just sorta assumed they didn't care much beyond the pure economics? (Maybe that's what you are saying.)
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by johansch 10y ago
German 'environmentalists' (I use that word ironically) are indeed something else. They did this after Fukushima. Are they afraid there'll be a baltic sea tsunami?
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by johansch 10y ago
Next up Germany and Poland, please. http://www.coalmap.eu/#/climate-problem
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by johansch 10y ago
Exactly. The tech division, while overfunded and overengineered is fulfilling its role in a good enough way.
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by johansch 10y ago
Only if there's an immediate feedback-loop. (As in a AI-run dictatorship.) In practise this kind of feedback can take up to a decade to cause actual implementation in most democracies, I would guess.
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by johansch 10y ago
Bullcrap. The tech is good enough (but not that much better beyond that level). >90% of the success comes from the content creation/licensing strategy/execution and marketing. I.e. non-tech. At this point it's a bit like a
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by johansch 10y ago
"In the absence of an actual 256-byte compo, it was submitted to the Oldskool 4K Intro compo at Revision 2017, where it ended up on 1st place." :-) (I hope the other contestants were suitably ashamed of themselves.)
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by johansch 10y ago
It would probably have been seen as proof of aliens and/or time travel back then.
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by johansch 10y ago
In this part of Asia, "dangerous" is code for "troublemaker", i.e. anyone who tries to challenge the state-sanctioned message. I think it's a sino-ism.
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by johansch 10y ago
Some background: Ncell is the company that was created by Swedish/Finnish telecom company TeliaSonera. They made a lot of PR buzz about bringing connectivity to Himalaya etc. They exited Tibet last year and sold the subsidiary to a Mal
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by johansch 10y ago
"dangerous website" "promotes companies and policies from other countries" Wow. Well... welcome to the internet?
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by johansch 10y ago
Phuket is such a sad place to visit. It's in that super-sad late stage tourism stage. Go elsewhere.
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by johansch 10y ago
Portland? Duh. Hipster ground-zero, globally.
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by johansch 10y ago
Ah. Not sure what name that has in Sweden (I think just: "Fullkornsbröd"), but having worked at a Norwegian company (or three) I did experience that kind of bread in their Oslo-based company canteen many times over the years (duri
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by johansch 10y ago
As a Swede I'm quite confused about what you're trying to say. I guess the benefit of (what I guess is the kind of bread you are talking about) is that it can be stored quite easily and last for a month or two in room temperature.
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by johansch 10y ago
Oh please just go back to reddit.
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by johansch 10y ago
In the end this does not seem to have mattered. Reddit's hardcore "contributors" are the kind of people who enjoy a challenge, even when it's stupid. I think it even turned into some kind of pride for some of them, being
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by johansch 10y ago
Did you try to use it? It's still there: https://www.reddit.com/r/place/ They have may have fixed one or two scrolling issues since, but the main issue is that if you a) press LMB b) move the mouse, and move
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by johansch 10y ago
It happened to me as well. I did verify that my changes actually made change (from the same IP, but in incognito mode). Didn't bother to check if the changes stayed.
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by johansch 10y ago
The front-end UX for scrolling that bitmap was quite frankly horribly badly designed.

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